My system seems to be smart enough to shut itself down when it gets too hot. Shoot, even my PS2 does that. I discovered this amazing fact one day after my nephew dropped it on the floor and the fans power cable slipped off. After about 10 minutes of playing, it would just shut itself off.
Records of meteorite strikes before 1775 are spotty at best.
While there is speculation that a meteorite strike killed the dinosaurs, there is little evidence to suggest that any homo sapiens were around to have been killed by it. Besides, the reference was to people being hit by a meteor, not being killed by one.
>When your tire explodes as you're going 55-75 miles per hour, eliminating your traction, you're in a different situation than a burn to your thigh, and
That's true. But even when your tire explodes you are not without options. My wife had a tire blow out on her while she was on the highway presumably doing about 60 to 65. I hardly consider her an above average driver, yet she managed to get off to the side of the road without flipping the vehicle(a GMC Safari).
Tires blowing out is not a good thing, but it happens. Manufacturers have to do tests to insure that their vehicle is able to be handled in a blowout condition. Even SUVs can be handled, but it involves at least SOME skill. Of course, a lot could depend on the traffic around you. If someone is following too close, they may rear-end you when your car slows unexpectedly, and that could be enough to unbalance your vehicle.
In my experience, 33% of tires I have had to replace have been due to blowout. About 2/3 of those have been at highway speeds. So far, none have resulted in a rollover, or even an accident.
Counting my blessings and so forth.
At least some of these cases involved third party batteries. How exactly is a cell phone company supposed to recall someone else's product?
I would agree that a company should recall their phones if the phones have caught on fire using batteries supplied or supported by the manufacturer, but I really hate to hold a company liable for someone else's trying to save a few bucks on a third party product.
Surprisingly, though, you have a better than even chance of surviving a lightning strike.
But then, nobody has yet died of a cell phone "explosion", have they?
>By the way, the odds of getting hit by an asteroid have been calculated at 1 in 20,000.
Interesting. I read that 6 people have been hit by a meteorite since 1775. And what is a meteorite but an asteroid that manages to hit the Earth before being totally burned up. Assuming that more than 120,000 people have died since 1775, I would say that the statistics are wrong.
Maybe that is just the figure the insurance companies use in order to justify charging me more for insurance.
Not sure about other culture's versions, but in the Bible version, the Arc was even more ridiculous in the eyes of the locals because it had never even RAINED before, let alone flooded. Water came up from the ground to nourish the plants and animals.
Not sure what this does to a river flooding theory either.
>it always astounds me how relatively advanced some of these civilizations were
Let's see. 9,000 years before Plato. So advanced at that time meant, what, they had levers maybe?
>Don't get me wrong. I don't suddenly believe in "anti-gravity" simply because of a few images that look like airplanes
I wouldn't either. If vehicles could fly by anti-gravity, there would be no need for load bearing wings at all. It would look more like a missile or rocket. Low wind resistance, but no lift generating surface
>Now the "ark" supposedly is on top of some mountain.
Hasn't it supposedly been on top of some mountain all along. I mean, the Bible says it is.
As for me, I find it unlikely that the Ark would still be there. What with all the water supposedly around, the Ark would be the only choice for already hewn lumber. I'm sure it was dismantled.
Isn't it odd that when they wrote down the scriptures from oral tradition in 200 to 300 AD, that they didn't write anything about one of the most significant events in the history of the Jews, ie. the destruction of the temple in 70 AD?
Seems like that might have been mentioned, unless of course, the gospels were written before then.
Yes, maybe the whole Atlantis thing is like the child at a mall who becomes separated from his parents, and then tells the mall security people "My parents got lost".
How does this jibe with the fact that the gospels were estimated to have been written (even by Bible detractors) to have occurred prior to the the 3rd century?
Driving a car drunk should only be legal if you don't leave your own property, and there is no one else on the property with you.
Selling crack should be a crime because it is addictive, damages peoples bodies, and turns them into criminals in order to get more of it.
The primary victim is the poor sucker who will now become addicted to a chemical which destorys their body, is addictive, and clouds their judgement.
The secondary victims are anybody and everybody else around who has something to steal so that the poor sucker can sell it and buy enough crack to feed his addiction.
That's not fair. If you are going to make one drug freely available, how can you specify limits on another. Oh, you don't do that drug, that's why.
You think Pot should be as available as alcohol. I think alcohol should be as available as Pot.
If Pot is made legal I would propose the same penalty for Pot related traffic accidents as I do for Alcohol related ones. One bullet.
You're right. Even if you don't punish people, I am sure they will obey all the rules of our society.
And we should probably not punish people simply for smoking crack. We should instead punish them after their crack smoking binge causes them to shoot someone, drive and crash into someone or otherwie cause harm to people.
Filtering is not trivial. One false positive is unacceptable.
People on the street selling wares do not steal my time and resources, as I ignore them completely.
I find it hard to believe that anyone actually likes to get spam. I guess I have to believe that some people buy products from spammers, because otherwise the very slightly less than zero cost of doing business would be higher than the reward of zero and they wouldn't do it.
I WILL NOT buy products from someone who I know has spammed.
I can choose to waste my life if I want to. No one else can choose that for me. I have to delete 600 spams a day. These are the ones that DON'T get trapped by my spam filter. If it takes one second per spam, that is 10 minutes a day, 365 days a year (spammers don't take holidays, or rather, their computers continue to spam, while they take holidays most of the year.) If my work brings in $100 an hour for my employer, that is thousands of dollars a year in lost productivity.
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My system seems to be smart enough to shut itself down when it gets too hot. Shoot, even my PS2 does that. I discovered this amazing fact one day after my nephew dropped it on the floor and the fans power cable slipped off. After about 10 minutes of playing, it would just shut itself off.
Records of meteorite strikes before 1775 are spotty at best.
While there is speculation that a meteorite strike killed the dinosaurs, there is little evidence to suggest that any homo sapiens were around to have been killed by it. Besides, the reference was to people being hit by a meteor, not being killed by one.
>When your tire explodes as you're going 55-75 miles per hour, eliminating your traction, you're in a different situation than a burn to your thigh, and
That's true. But even when your tire explodes you are not without options. My wife had a tire blow out on her while she was on the highway presumably doing about 60 to 65. I hardly consider her an above average driver, yet she managed to get off to the side of the road without flipping the vehicle(a GMC Safari).
Tires blowing out is not a good thing, but it happens. Manufacturers have to do tests to insure that their vehicle is able to be handled in a blowout condition. Even SUVs can be handled, but it involves at least SOME skill. Of course, a lot could depend on the traffic around you. If someone is following too close, they may rear-end you when your car slows unexpectedly, and that could be enough to unbalance your vehicle.
In my experience, 33% of tires I have had to replace have been due to blowout. About 2/3 of those have been at highway speeds. So far, none have resulted in a rollover, or even an accident.
Counting my blessings and so forth.
At least some of these cases involved third party batteries. How exactly is a cell phone company supposed to recall someone else's product?
I would agree that a company should recall their phones if the phones have caught on fire using batteries supplied or supported by the manufacturer, but I really hate to hold a company liable for someone else's trying to save a few bucks on a third party product.
Surprisingly, though, you have a better than even chance of surviving a lightning strike.
But then, nobody has yet died of a cell phone "explosion", have they?
>By the way, the odds of getting hit by an asteroid have been calculated at 1 in 20,000.
Interesting. I read that 6 people have been hit by a meteorite since 1775. And what is a meteorite but an asteroid that manages to hit the Earth before being totally burned up.
Assuming that more than 120,000 people have died since 1775, I would say that the statistics are wrong.
Maybe that is just the figure the insurance companies use in order to justify charging me more for insurance.
Not sure about other culture's versions, but in the Bible version, the Arc was even more ridiculous in the eyes of the locals because it had never even RAINED before, let alone flooded. Water came up from the ground to nourish the plants and animals.
Not sure what this does to a river flooding theory either.
>it always astounds me how relatively advanced some of these civilizations were
Let's see. 9,000 years before Plato. So advanced at that time meant, what, they had levers maybe?
>Don't get me wrong. I don't suddenly believe in "anti-gravity" simply because of a few images that look like airplanes
I wouldn't either. If vehicles could fly by anti-gravity, there would be no need for load bearing wings at all. It would look more like a missile or rocket. Low wind resistance, but no lift generating surface
>Now the "ark" supposedly is on top of some mountain.
Hasn't it supposedly been on top of some mountain all along. I mean, the Bible says it is. As for me, I find it unlikely that the Ark would still be there. What with all the water supposedly around, the Ark would be the only choice for already hewn lumber. I'm sure it was dismantled.
Well, thank goodness we have the "original" manuscripts of Plato, Julius Ceasar, Mohammed, et al.
Isn't it odd that when they wrote down the scriptures from oral tradition in 200 to 300 AD, that they didn't write anything about one of the most significant events in the history of the Jews, ie. the destruction of the temple in 70 AD?
Seems like that might have been mentioned, unless of course, the gospels were written before then.
>Just like the coelacanth, huh?
There is fossil evidence of the Coelacanth, therefore it used to exist.
Yes, maybe the whole Atlantis thing is like the child at a mall who becomes separated from his parents, and then tells the mall security people "My parents got lost".
How does this jibe with the fact that the gospels were estimated to have been written (even by Bible detractors) to have occurred prior to the the 3rd century?
I contend that you can be both the victim and the aggressor, as in suicide, and I believe it holds true in cases of drugs and alcohol.
Driving a car drunk should only be legal if you don't leave your own property, and there is no one else on the property with you.
Selling crack should be a crime because it is addictive, damages peoples bodies, and turns them into criminals in order to get more of it.
The primary victim is the poor sucker who will now become addicted to a chemical which destorys their body, is addictive, and clouds their judgement.
The secondary victims are anybody and everybody else around who has something to steal so that the poor sucker can sell it and buy enough crack to feed his addiction.
I disagree. Drunk driving resulting in death should be treated as murder. Drunk driving resulting in no injury should be treated as attempted murder.
That's not fair. If you are going to make one drug freely available, how can you specify limits on another. Oh, you don't do that drug, that's why.
You think Pot should be as available as alcohol. I think alcohol should be as available as Pot.
If Pot is made legal I would propose the same penalty for Pot related traffic accidents as I do for Alcohol related ones. One bullet.
You're right. Even if you don't punish people, I am sure they will obey all the rules of our society.
And we should probably not punish people simply for smoking crack. We should instead punish them after their crack smoking binge causes them to shoot someone, drive and crash into someone or otherwie cause harm to people.
Or you could conclude that the type of people who are put in prison are habitual criminals.
Filtering is not trivial. One false positive is unacceptable.
People on the street selling wares do not steal my time and resources, as I ignore them completely.
I find it hard to believe that anyone actually likes to get spam. I guess I have to believe that some people buy products from spammers, because otherwise the very slightly less than zero cost of doing business would be higher than the reward of zero and they wouldn't do it.
I WILL NOT buy products from someone who I know has spammed.
I can choose to waste my life if I want to. No one else can choose that for me. I have to delete 600 spams a day. These are the ones that DON'T get trapped by my spam filter. If it takes one second per spam, that is 10 minutes a day, 365 days a year (spammers don't take holidays, or rather, their computers continue to spam, while they take holidays most of the year.) If my work brings in $100 an hour for my employer, that is thousands of dollars a year in lost productivity.
Yes, but you can heat your home with junk snail mail. Plus it subsidizes first class mail. Spam serves no useful purpose.